OVERVIEW

Cancer

Scientists and clinicians at TRI are working towards improved diagnosis and treatment of various cancers including breast, prostate, head and neck, and skin cancers.

In 2018, an estimated 140,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed, and just under 50,000 people died from the disease (AIHW, 2018). In Australia, the most commonly diagnosed cancers are currently breast cancer, followed by prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and melanoma.(AIHW, 2018

Researchers at TRI are working closely with clinicians to identify novel ways to detect, diagnose, monitor and treat various types of cancers. These projects include specialist cancer groups across QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Mater Research, The University of Queensland.

Image: Cancer tumour spheroid with fluorescent labelling according to cell phenotype. Crystal Tonnessen (June 2015).

Key Researchers
 
Andrew Perkins
Nicholas Andrew Saunders
Colleen Nelson
Geoffrey Faulkner
Ingrid Winkler
Jean-Pierre Levesque
John Hooper
Judith Clements
Kristen Radford
Maher Gandhi
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CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAMS
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Blood Cancer
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Head and Neck Cancer
Kidney Cancer
Lung Cancer
Ovarian Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Skin Cancer
GALLERY
Interview with Prof John Hooper about pancreatic cancer research
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JUDITH CLEMENTS QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS While Australians were celebrating the Queen's Birthday long weekend with a public holiday, the team at QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical...Read more
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GutFull Event Wrap Up Last Wednesday, UQ's Diamantina Institute hosted an event at TRI focusing on Gut Microbiome - the good and bad bugs in our bodies. This free forum was part of a series...Read more
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IT'S A BLOKE THING & THE PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION OF AUSTRALIA SHOW SUPPORT FOR TRI PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCHERS It's a Bloke Thing ( IABT) and The Prostate Cancer Foundation of...Read more
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PROFESSOR PAMELA RUSSELL AM NAMED AAHMS FELLOW TRI based QUT medical scientist Professor Pamela Russell AM , head of Biomedical Imaging and Prostate Cancer Models in the Australian Prostate Cancer...Read more
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EARLY WARNING SIGNAL FOR BREAST CANCER IN WOMEN WITH BRCA GENE Dr David Clark and Professor Carolyn Mountford in the HMRI Imaging Centre Australian researchers have developed a new magnetic resonance...Read more
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Prostate cancer collaborative research symposium The Prostate Cancer Collaborative Research Symposium program will facilitate knowledge sharing and collaborative networking within the global prostate...Read more
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tri cancer seminar Thursday, 11 December 2014 9:00am-10:00am, Room 2007, Level 2 Andy Wu (MRI) ‘Macrophage depletion influence woven bone formation in a murine model of prostate cancer...Read more
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Final PhD Seminar by Ruth Fuhrman-Luck "Determining the kallikrein-related peptidase 4-regulated degradome and transcriptome in the prostate cancer microenvironment" Prostate cancer is a...Read more
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Mushroom compound with Vit E suppress prostate cancer tumours Stopping Australia's most commonly diagnosed cancer - prostate cancer - in its tracks is the goal of scientists around the world. A...Read more

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